Thinking Skills (1:12)

Fog is a major cause of accidents on highways in some areas. Every year many thousands of people lose their lives because fog can dangerously reduce visibility. the drivers cannot see very far ahead so they

• do not have time to avoid accidents

• go faster to avoid accidents

• have more time to read the signs

• do not have time to have accidents

The idea of a car that knows where to go may seem impossible. However new technology may soon make this possible. Cars will have computers to tell rovers which roads have the least traffics. That way the driers will not waste time in traffic jams. There will also be less population because the car engines will be running less. These new cars will be known as

• "expensive cars"

• "fast cars"

• "traffic cars"

• "smart cars"

Scottish people like to sing that golf is a Scottish sport. The game did not come from Scotland, however. It was first played in Holland in the 14th century. Only later did it become

• popular with the Dutch

• popular in Scotland

• a real sport

• an Olympic sport

When Christopher Coulombs sailed west from Spain in 1492, he wanted to reach Asia. He did not know there was another continent in between Europe and Asia. In fact, when he died he still believe that the land he had found was

• Asia

• America

• Spain

• another continent

In the past, many people in Western Ireland and the

Scottish Highlands spoke Gaelic as their first language. Now only few people speak Gaelic, and they are mostly from the older generation. The younger people

• hardly understand any English

• don't like to speak with strangers

• often don't even understand Gaelic

• don't often speak with the older generation

When Europeans first arrived in North America in 1620, the forests were full of bears. There were more than half a million of these wild animals. Then the Europeans began to cut down the forest where the bears live. They also began to hunt the bears. By 1900 there were very few bears left. Now, however the bear population is about 200000. The bears have begun to multiply again, thanks to

• better hunting methods

• better foods for them

• better laws to protect them

• better laws to protect europeans

• worst enemy

• only friend

• latest friend

• oldest friend

• no more alligators in the United States

• fewer alligators than there were in 1967

• more alligators skins for making shoes and purses

• nearly two million alligators in the United States

• a large head and small body

• a very thin middle

• tight clothes around its middle

• long, thin legs

• Dutch at very high prices

• Turkish at very high prices

• Turkish at very low prices

• Dutch at very low prices